Quotes About Internationalism

My prevailing interest has been in the world as a whole, and in the place of a person in a larger setting than one defined by national boundaries.

When we have at last overthrown all existing governments, the world will enjoy not war but global orgies conducted with the utmost protocol and the most truly international spirit, for these people do transcend simple national differences. Their minds are on one goal; they are truly united; they think as one.

On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!

Ahora que esta amenaza [la agresión soviética] ha sido eliminada, han surgido otros problemas... Existe un enorme incentivo para trabajar cooperativamente. Pero las fuerzas del nacionalismo, el proteccionismo y los conflictos religiosos avanzan en dirección contraria. El nuevo orden mundial debe desarrollar un mundo cooperativo y encontrar nuevos medios para reprimir dichas fuerzas divisorias

Frederick II of Prussia (known as "the Great," reigned 1740–1786) famously ran his Berlin court—and the associated Academy of Sciences—in French. When Voltaire visited in 1750, he wrote to the Marquis de Thibouville that "I find myself here in France. One speaks only our language. German is for the soldiers and for the horses; it is only necessary on the road."187f

As Keynes wrote, with devastating understatement, 'The age of economic internationalism was not particularly successful in avoiding war.

that the ability of oppressed people throughout the world to exercise genuine self-determination would strengthen liberty in the United States. This idea of emancipatory internationalism was born of centuries of struggle against slavery, colonialism, and oppression in the Americas. When Martin Luther King connected the lives of Vietnamese villagers with the prospects of Black youths in South Central Los Angeles he was drawing on an extraordinary fountain of experiential wisdom.

Emancipatory internationalism had been born in the first stormy years of the republic when African Americans and their allies recognized that slavery, racial capitalism, and imperialism were fatally intertwined. Now, even as they were embroiled in struggles for land, the right to vote, and protection from Ku Klux Klan terrorism, African Americans insisted that their emancipation was incomplete as long as oppression existed elsewhere.